animisme
\a.ni.mism\
The verdict
“animisme” is uncommon French (frequency #70,377 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,377
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doctrine philosophique qui fait de l’âme le principe de tous les phénomènes vitaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-animisme · animisme · French
animisme · rank #70,377 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,377
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH andouillette
Nearest frequency peer: andouillette (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « animisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ander
ander
29,626 corpus weight
- andouillette
andouillette
29,625 corpus weight
- animisme
animisme
29,624 corpus weight
- Anny
Anny
29,623 corpus weight
- anticancére…
anticancéreux
29,621 corpus weight
- antidrogue
antidrogue
29,620 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « animisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | animisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ni.mism\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « animisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
animisme is uncommon French at frequency #70,377 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ni.mism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for animisme, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is animisme, spelled A-N-I-M-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Doctrine philosophique qui fait de l’âme le principe de tous les phénomènes vitaux.
- 2Perception d’une identité commune à tous les êtres vivants en même temps que d’une différenciation nette entre les différentes formes de manifestation de ce vivant. Prêter des intentions à des choses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how animisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès lors, plus d'hypothèses inutiles sur des forces vitales, sur un animisme distinct ou indistinct ; plus de disquisitions oiseuses sur les causes premières, inaccessibles à notre curiosité, autant qu'éloignées de notre but pratique : […].
S’il existe un certain nombre de religions traditionnelles, l’animisme en est la forme la plus importante.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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